Jarlaxle and Artemis Entreri

This is from the R.A. Salvatores' Promise of the Witch-King from chapter 2. It also answers the question from my previous image of Jarlaxle, In my pocket I have.
Recipe for the cake is here
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"It's never enough for you to simply kill, is it?" Entreri asked aloud, and his gaze alternated through the sentence from the dagger to his image in the mirror and back again.
"On the Contrary," came a smooth, lyrical voice from the side. "I pride myself on killing only when Necessary, and usually I find that to be more than enough to sate whatever feelings spurred me to the deed in the first place."
Entreri turned his head to watch Jarlaxle enter the room, his tall black leather boots clacking loudly on the wooden floor. A moment ago, those boots were making not a whisper of sound, Entreri knew, for Jarlaxle could silence them or amplify them with no more than a thought...
If you knew how often the thought of killing you entered my mind. Entreri thought, but stopped as a knowing smirk widened on Jarlaxle's face.
"Where is the red-haired lass?"
Entreri looked around the small room and shrugged. "I suspect that she left."
"Even with sleep caking your eyes, you remain the perceptive one."
"You are certain that the tigress has gone?"he asked.
"Or she's become very small."
Jarlaxle cast a sour expression Entreri's way. "Is she under your bed?"
"You wear the eye patch. Just look through it."
"Ah, you wound me yet again," said the drow. "Tell me, my friend, if I peer into your chest, will I see but a cavity where your heart should be?"
"Inform me if that is the case," Entreri said, walking over to tug his jeweled dagger out of the wall, "that I might cut out Jarlaxle's heart to serve as replacement."
"Far too large for the likes of Entreri, I fear."
Entreri started to respond but found that he hadn't the heart for it.
"So what has Ilnezhara told you about Vaasa that has you so intrigued you?"
Jarlaxle's smile came in the form of a wry grin, one that did not deny Entreri's suspicions.
"They did battle with Zhengyi, the Witch-King," the drow explained, "a lich of tremendous power. Many of Zhengyi's treasures have been uncovered, claimed, and brought to Damara. But what they have found is a pittance. Zhengyi possed artifacts, and a hoard of treasure enough to entice flights of dragons to his call. And he was a lich. He knew the secret."...

"Is there no purpose to your life beyond the act of acquisition?"
That rocked Jarlaxle back on his heels-one of the very few times Entreri had ever seen him temporarily rattled. But of course it passed quickly.
"If it is, it's the purpose of both my life and yours, it would seem," the drow finally retorted. "Did you not cross the face of Faerun to hunt down Regis and the ruby pendant of Pasha Pook?"
"It was a job."
"One you could have refused."
"I enjoy the adventure."
"Then let us go," said the drow, and he waved his arm in an exaggerated motion at the door. "Adventure awaits! Experiences beyond any we have known, perhaps. How can you resist?"
"And there are hundreds of adventures searching for those treasures."
"Of course," the drow conceded, " but none of them know how to look as well as I."
"I could take that two ways."
Jarlaxle put one hand on his hip, turned slightly, and struck a pose. "And you would be correct on both counts," he assured his friend. The drow reached into his belt pouch and brought forth a corn bread cake artistically topped with a sweet white and pink frosting. He held it up before his eyes, a grin widening on his face. "I do so know how to find, and retain, treasure."
he said, and he tossed the delicacy to Entreri with the explanation, "A present from Piter."
Entreri looked at the cake, though he was in no mood for delicacies, or any food at all. "Piter, " he whispered. It occurred to Artemis Entreri that he, too, might fall into Jarlaxle's category of found and retained treasures. It was pretty obvious which of the duo was taking the lead and who was following.

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